Flags of Convenience:
The largest shipping registries are Panama, Liberia, Greece, Marshall Islands and the Bahamas,
Approximately 6,300 sail under the Panamanian flag, making Panama the largest. The Greek-controlled fleet is at almost 90 million gross tons.
The Marshall Islands is fourth with 1, 500 vessels and 37 million tons. Bahamas has 1,500 vessels at 27 million tons.
Other significant flags include Cyprus and Malta

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Go Trader: Crew stow away on Lendoudis bulker

Pirates managed to board the Malta-flagged MV GO TRADER from one skiff approximately 280 nautical miles (520 kilometres) south east from Salalah, Oman On the morning of 30 October 2010,;however, after a couple of hours they eventually abandoned it, after having been unable to get control over the crew who had locked themselves in the ship’s “citadel”.